Friday, August 31, 2012

My Husband's 30th Birthday

The big 3-0….it’s a big deal for
some!Leaving your twenties is like
saying goodbye to your younger years as you officially embark on a real grown
up life!For many, marriage, kids, a
career and mortgage are all a part of our thirties.It’s a good thing really…I don’t know why it
seems so scary.

On August 4 of this year my
handsome husband began this journey.Although he tells me that he is still 29.You see, my husband was adopted from Taiwan.When he was twenty-five and buying his first home, he discovered that
social security had the incorrect year of birth on the official SS
document.For that reason, he likes to
think that he still has one more year left before the big 3-0, but let’s face
it…..my mother-in-law would have known when she brought him home if he was a
year younger than what he really is.Sorry hun, but there’s no avoiding it…..you are 30!

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Celebrating 30 can be a lot of
fun.Me, well I want to get away and go
to Vegas when I turn 30.We’ll see if
that actually happens.Pinterest has
some great 30th birthday party ideas as well, but my husband is more
of simple kind of guy.A few weeks
before his birthday, he sort of hinted that he wanted a surprise party.Although he would never admit it, that’s the
vibe I got from him.I immediately began
making arrangements to have a surprise party for him the week before his 30th
birthday.I wasn’t able to make a cake
without him knowing about it, so my mother-in-law graciously picked up a cake
for us before they got to our house.As
far as dinner goes, I stuck with a crock pot meal. He had no idea how much
food I was preparing, and it was easily prepared.It ended up working out really well, because his
brother was supposed to be coming up to help with house projects that
weekend.Matt thought he was going to
spend the day working.He had no idea
that family was coming up to celebrate with him.That explains the clothes that he is wearing
in this picture.Now you know what he
looks like on a Saturday afternoon when we don’t go anywhere.At least I got him to shower that morning, because
he wasn’t even going to do that!

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Matt may have been the reason for
the party, but our niece, baby Anna, stole the show.She was only a few old weeks here and
is absolutely precious!

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A week later, Matt and I
celebrated his actual birthday together.I told him that I had the entire day planned for him and that he would
love it! Because my husband is a lover
of food, particularly Asian food, I planned an entire day around some of his
favorite food!

We started our day off at TaiwanTea House.It’s located on 82nd Street in-between Castleton and Keystone
malls.It was our first time trying this
restaurant, and it was awesome!I found
it when researching places to take him for his birthday.I ordered the family tofu with shrimp, while my
husband ordered the general tso's chicken.The food was really good.Not at
al like what you get from Americanized Chinese restaurants.It was fresh and authentically Chinese with an American twist, if I can say that.Each meal comes with the soup of the day and
two crab rangoons.We didn’t know that
though, so we ordered a plate of crab rangoons as an appetizer.

I also tried the peach boba
tea.It was very good.It tastes less like tea and more like a fruit
drink.We’ve been back a couple times
since his birthday, and I have found that the coconut boba tea is my favorite.

Boba is little round, gummy like
things in the bottom of the drink.With
a large straw they get sucked up with the tea and are chewed like candy.Very unique to our American ways, but I quite
enjoy it.

Ok, enough about our new favorite place to eat. So after lunch, we did a little
birthday shopping….

Yes, I said dessert.Only my husband would enjoy dim sum for
dessert.He said that it wasn’t nearly
as god as the dim sum he had in SF, but it’s the best you’re gonna get in Indianapolis.Shanghai Lil is pricy, and if your trying get filled on a meal, be
prepared to spend a lot money.Because we just
ate lunch, we didn’t order very much.We
ordered just enough for a snack….or I guess I should say dessert.

After lunch, shopping and dessert,
we stopped and picked up our dinner and dessert for later.We had a nice birthday nap before eating our dinner
at home.And of course dinner was none
other than one of my husband’s favorite meals…..sushi. I had never even tried
sushi until we started dating, but I have definitely grown to enjoy it right
along with him.

Last meal of the day was birthday cake. My husband is not big on sweets,
but he really does enjoy Gigi’s Cupcakes, especially the lemon poppyseed and
strawberry shortcake cupcakes.

Unfortunately, I dropped the box
when getting out of the car, so they weren’t too pretty when we got home.

They still tasted great
though.My husband can have his fruity
cupcakes, I’d much rather have the chocolate ones.I ordered the classic red velvet and the
white midnight magic.Best food
of the day if I do say so myself!

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Overall, I’d say that my husband had a pretty good thirtieth birthday that suited him perfectly!

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